25 Quotes About Inventor

A good inventor is like a good writer: he is never satisfied with what he has done; but always ready to improve upon it. — Samuel F. B. Morse Oh, how we all love to hear success stories of inventors who started out as ordinary folks with incredible ideas and became astoundingly rich by creating something new Read more

So whether you enjoy learning about the newest inventions or you simply like hearing about those who came up with the greatest ideas, there’s no better place to go than the best inventor quotes.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't...
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Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done. Amit Kalantri
An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot...
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An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor. Amit Kalantri
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Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it. Israelmore Ayivor
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After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity — now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved. Piet Hein
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When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists. Vineet Raj Kapoor
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Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one. Matshona Dhliwayo
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I don't know what being god must feel like, but it can't be much different that being an inventor. There is power in the idea that a certain product never existed before you thought of it, there is joy in the act of bringing the idea into reality and there is contentment in seeing the product come to life when it is being used. Soumeet Lanka
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Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing. Ryan Lilly
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Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing. Ryan Lilly
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There's no reason that anything should ever become obsolete, whether it be VHS tapes, celluloid film, print books or even the previous versions of a computer operating system, as long as even just one person still wants them around. After all, one thing leads to another, old inventions are the basis for new ones, inventors and designers and scientists and hobbyists worked hard to create all these things, so don't they deserve some respect, enough not to have their ideas buried in the dust by the latest trends and fads? . Rebecca McNutt
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Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider–to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion.( Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer) Konrad Zuse
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Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness! Israelmore Ayivor
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The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention. Ernst Alexanderson
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I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[ Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] Gail Borden
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Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit. Raymond Loewy
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That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a smell of acids that permeated the corridor and came to the notice of every visitor. Rolandsen made no secret of the fact that he had all these medicaments there solely to disguise the aroma of all the brandy he consumed. But this was part of an act designed purely to give himself an air of inscrutability. Knut Hamsun
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You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different. Shannon L. Alder
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The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent. Toba Beta
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A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.[ On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.] . Samuel Crompton
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I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them. Hillary Wen
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To become an artist you have to be curious. Leonardo Da Vinci
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I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it? Ryan Lilly
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The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. Alexander Graham Bell
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I brought my hand to the back of his neck and leaned into him, sliding my fingers into the curls at his nape. His arms clasped tighter around me. I sighed just a little against his mouth, feeling that it was almost too much, all this newness, this feeling that there was space and light inside me I’d never noticed before. Every part of me down to my fingertips felt like reworked glass, melting into some new shape, my edges beginning to glow. I wanted to do nothing but change this way, pressed against his body, his warmth and goodness, forever. Betsy Cornwell